English Resources
Resources Hosted by English
- Restoration Theatre Song Archive
- Harold Love's Rochester Edition Web Pages
- Source Index to English Clandestine Satire 1660–1702
Literary Sites
Don't forget that our own Matheson Library provides a truly vast range of excellent electronic resources to staff and students of the University, including Early English Books On-Line, Literature On-Line, and the Oxford English Dictionary. This is not available to hoi polloi, however, so you'll need your Authcate password to get in. Check out the whole range (it includes dictionaries, encyclopedias and online journals) at Voyager Electronic Databases.
Poetry
- British Poetry 1780-1910
- Marked up and scholarly editions of books of poetry produced between 1780 and 1900.
- Poetry Magic
- A resource centre for the theory and craft of writing poetry. Whether you're a veteran of the poetry circuit, or taking your first tentative steps, these pages are here to help you.
- The Ozlit Poetry Page
- I'll let you work this one out for yourself.
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- A resource for Renaissance Literature students.
- Sonnet Central
- An archive of English sonnets, commentary, and relevant web links, and a forum for poets to share and discuss their own work.
- Interviews with Poets
- Talks with leading contemporary poets about their life and work
Electronic Journals & Texts
- Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
- The Chairman of the Board.
- The Oxford Text Archive
- Contains electronic versions of literary works by many major authors
- Versification: An Electronic Journal of Literary Prosody
- The title says it all: not everyone's cup of tea, but if you like this sort of thing then this is just the sort of thing you'll like.
Other Resources
- The Literary Encyclopaedia
- An first-rate, authoritative, up-to-date reference work written by scholars for scholars and students. Its entries represent the state of the art in scholarly understanding and it grows in scale every week.
- Labyrinth Project
- Produced by Georgetown University and dedicated to medieval studies, this gateway has some sources for medieval English literature and Old English.
- Voice of the Shuttle
- A directory of English subject resources